Wool Obsession

Just wanted to do a quick post to show off the wonderful goodies I acquired at the Estes Park Wool Market. I decided not to get any raw wool fleeces even though there was a great select to choose from just because I wanted to get to the spinning more quickly.

Item 1: A Teeswater/Cotswold Cross roving, approximately 1 lb., in natural white.

Item 2: A natural brown Bond roving, approximately 1/2 pound.

Item 3: Some hand-dyed Cormo wool, approximately 4 oz.

My tentative plan for the three items above is to use my drum carder to blend them into a batt, then spin that into either a two or three-ply yarn to use in a vest. I’ll be doing some sampling soon to figure out how well that plan is going to work.

Lastly, I got this - a 2 oz. dyed silk cap. I really don’t have any plans for this yet - I just couldn’t resist it!

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Here’s my latest finished piece of knitting - it’s a scarf knit with the hemp I spun a few weeks ago. My plan all along when I was spinning this fiber was to make a scarf from it using one of the patterns in Lisa Lloyd’s new book, A Fine Fleece.

Unfortunately, I didn’t end up with quite enough yardage to make the scarf as written. The pattern called for repeating the lace pattern three times over the width, and I quickly realized that if I did three repeats across, the scarf would be too short to wrap around even the thinnest neck. So, instead, I opted to go with one repeat instead of three, and using a bigger needle to get a wider repeat. The result? A long (probably over 7 feet), skinny-ish scarf.

Here’s a close-up view that shows the lace repeat much better. Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the results. I just wish that I had finished it when the weather was still cool enough to wear it!

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